Camping Admits He's Wrong

Rx: I wish a retraction and apology was enough. But Camping has destroyed lives with his predictions. God may forgive, but that doesn't mean we can or should escape the earthly consequences of our actions. He deserves to get sued and lose everything, just like many of his followers gave up everything they had.

Harold Camping Admits He's Wrong About Doomsday Predictions (FULL STATEMENT)
By CP News Briefs
March 7, 2012|1:06 pm

Below is the full statement issued by Harold Camping and Family Radio in March 2012 admitting that the doomsday predictions were "wrong" and apologizing for their "incorrect and sinful" statement. Last year, Camping famously predicted that the Rapture would occur May 21, 2011 and the end of the world would occur Oct. 21, 2011.

An Important Letter from Mr. Camping - March 2012

THE BOARD OF FAMILY RADIO WISHES TO POST THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM MR. CAMPING. IT WAS OUR WISH, OUT OF RESPECT FOR OUR LISTENERS, TO MAIL OUT THIS LETTER BEFORE POSTING IT TO THE WEB SITE. HOWEVER, BECAUSE IT WAS LEAKED TO THE INTERNET WITHOUT OUR AUTHORIZATION, WE HAVE MADE THE DECISION TO POST IT IMMEDIATELY TO AVOID CONFUSION. THIS LETTER WILL ALSO BE MAILED OUT TO OUR LISTENERS.

"God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." Romans 3:4

Dear Family Radio Family,

In this time of confusion and turmoil, God's Word remains the only truth in which we can trust. God has shown us again the truth that He alone is true. In Romans 3:4 God declares: "Let God be true but every man a liar." Events within the last year have proven that no man can be fully trusted. Even the most sincere and zealous of us can be mistaken.

The May 21 campaign was an astounding event if you think about its impact upon this world. There is no question that millions, if not billions of people heard for the first time the Bible's warning that Jesus Christ will return. Huge portions of this world that had never read or seen a Bible heard the message the Christ Jesus is coming to rapture His people and destroy this natural world.

Yes, we humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing; yet though we were wrong God is still using the May 21 warning in a very mighty way. In the months following May 21 the Bible has, in some ways, come out from under the shadows and is now being discussed by all kinds of people who never before paid any attention to the Bible. We learn about this, for example, by the recent National Geographic articles concerning the King James Bible and the Apostles. Reading about and even discussing about the Bible can never be a bad thing, even if the Bible's authenticity is questioned or ridiculed. The world's attention has been called to the Bible.

We must also openly acknowledge that we have no new evidence pointing to another date for the end of the world. Though many dates are circulating, Family Radio has no interest in even considering another date. God has humbled us through the events of May 21, to continue to even more fervently search the Scriptures (the Bible), not to find dates, but to be more faithful in our understanding.

We have learned the very painful lesson that all of creation is in God's hands and He will end time in His time, not ours! We humbly recognize that God may not tell His people the date when Christ will return, any more than He tells anyone the date they will die physically.

We realize that many people are hoping they will know the date of Christ's return. In fact for a time Family Radio fell into that kind of thinking. But we now realize that those people who were calling our attention to the Bible's statement that "of that day and hour knoweth no man" (Matthew 24:36 & Mark 13:32), were right in their understanding of those verses and Family Radio was wrong. Whether God will ever give us any indication of the date of His return is hidden in God's divine plan.

We were even so bold as to insist that the Bible guaranteed that Christ would return on May 21 and that the true believers would be raptured. Yet this incorrect and sinful statement allowed God to get the attention of a great many people who otherwise would not have paid attention. Even as God used sinful Balaam to accomplish His purposes, so He used our sin to accomplish His purpose of making the whole world acquainted with the Bible. However, even so, that does not excuse us. We tremble before God as we humbly ask Him for forgiveness for making that sinful statement. We are so thankful that God is so loving that He will forgive even this sin.

So we must be satisfied to humbly wait upon God, and trust He will guide His people to safety. At Family Radio, we continue to look to God for guidance. If it is His good pleasure for us to continue on with our original mission, the proclamation of the Gospel, God's Word, then we must continue to look to Him.

We consider you to be a real part of this ministry and the tremendous opportunities which God, by His unfathomable mercy and grace, continues to give to us. And, your steadfast involvement and support is so appreciated!

May God bless you,
Harold Camping and the staff of Family Radio.

Sued for what Rx?

Can you sue someone because you were foolish enough to follow their advice unless they knowingly mislead and gained personally from it from you?

I agree he's slime!

Fraud.

Sure you can. It doesn't mean you'll win. What I was talking about is what he deserves.

How does a Christian get to this verse of the Bible "of that day and hour knoweth no man" (Matthew 24:36 & Mark 13:32)

and then say.....Hey....I got this

FYI Harold Camping died on July 19, 2011...so validity of this message is in question as it says it is a letter from Harold Camping in March 2012.

Unless it was from his son, or if he wrote it back in 2011 before he died and they are just now releasing it

But as I said you would have to show it was for profit or gain.

If I came on OP and said the world was going to end tomorrow and all the members of OP went out and spent all their money for one last party can they sue me for following my advice?

Getting him into a lawsuit is less than he might deserve.

That's the beauty of the Mayan predictions. You can't sue those guys. They're dead.

Wikipedia has him as alive still. Usually they're on top of their game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping

There are recorded messages from Camping on the Family Radio site from this past November, so he couldn't have died last July. He's still alive. I'm glad he's learned his lesson. But I do not believe the apology can or should release him from the fiduciary responsibility he has to his followers. I doubt it will happen, but he deserves to lose everything in lawsuits by people who threw away everything based on his teachings.